Picture "L'Eunuque Impérial" (1975)
Picture "L'Eunuque Impérial" (1975)
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limited, 50 copies | numbered | signed | colour lithograph on paper | framed | size 103 x 78.5 cm
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Picture "L'Eunuque Impérial" (1975)
"L'Eunuque Impérial" is a work from the late career of the exceptional Catalan artist Joan Miró. The painter, graphic artist and sculptor created the colour lithograph when he had already been detaching from figurative painting for several decades and had turned to abstraction. It impresses with its pure colouring of a few tones and the use of black covering the whole surface. At first glance, ovals, circles, dots and red stripes of colour form a dynamic teeming mass, but on closer inspection, they represent excerpts from the artist's complex system of signs.
The title refers to a so-called eunuch, a man who is usually in a courtly position and has been castrated. Numerous myths have grown up around him in various cultures around the world. On the one hand, eunuchs are said to be insidious and scheming. On the other hand, they are considered to be sincere and loyal because of their taken ability to procreate. The fact that Miró, who was influenced by Surrealism, took up the eunuch as a figure could be related to his interest in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. In Freud's theory, castration anxiety plays a central role and becomes an explanation of gender-specific personality structures. Miró's fascination with the human soul and his confrontation with his masculinity were to remain important themes for him throughout his life.
Original colour lithograph, 1975. Edition: 50 copies on Arches paper, numbered and signed by hand. Catalogue raisonné Mourlot 1023. motif size/sheet size 80 x 56.5 cm. Size in frame 103 x 78.5 cm as shown.
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About Joan Miró
Joan Miró - Master of Surrealism
1893-1983, Spanish painter, graphic artist, sculptor and ceramicist.
Joan Miró is considered one of the most important representatives of Surrealism. The artist, who had a significant influence on abstract expressionism, found his own way to an abstract formal language of strongly contoured surreal forms, but without abandoning the reference to the object. Anyone wishing to buy a Miró painting will discover a unique combination of symbolism and color in his works.
Joan Miró was born in 1893 in the Spanish art metropolis of Barcelona. Despite the initial reluctance of his father, who was a goldsmith and watchmaker, he received drawing lessons as a child. He attended a commercial school and the La Llotja art academy, where Pablo Picasso had taken art lessons just ten years earlier. Anyone looking to buy a Joan Miró painting will find a fascinating development from realistic painting to an abstract dream world in his early works.
From 1919 onwards, Miró lived alternately in Spain and Paris. He had his studio in the world capital of art and in Barcelona from 1921. Shortly afterwards, he created the famous painting “The Farm” - a perfect example of the transition from a realistic perspective to pictorial dream visions. Art lovers who want to buy a Miró original appreciate precisely this mixture of reality and surrealism.
In Paris, Joan Miró also socialized with the eloquent Surrealists, with whom he remained a quiet outsider. Nevertheless, he exhibited together with them in 1925. His paintings became increasingly abstract and symbolic. A trip to Holland inspired him to create the “Dutch Interiors”. The following year, 1928, he got married, fell into an artistic crisis and, by his own admission, wanted to “murder painting”. Nevertheless, he continued on his artistic path, and anyone who wants to buy Joan Miró will discover a fascinating further development of his style in his works.
But Miró decided to keep painting alive and triumphed. His precisely planned pictures became clearer and often contained only a few associative signs, symbols and archetypal elements such as stars, birds and eyes. They increasingly consisted of large, overlapping surfaces in bold colors, revealing Miró's strength as a colorist. Anyone who wants to buy a Joan Miró painting can be inspired by this lively and color-intensive style of painting.
His first “Papiers Collés”, collages and reliefs were created around 1930. In addition to his paintings, he also created an extensive body of graphic work, including Miró lithographs, etchings and woodcuts, which made him internationally famous. Anyone looking to buy a Miró lithograph will discover the essence of his unmistakable style in these prints. Works signed by Miró are particularly sought-after, as they create a personal connection to the artist.
In the first half of the 1950s, his work was dominated by graphic art and ceramics. He lived in Palma de Mallorca and received numerous commissions for wall ceramics in public buildings, for example for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1964, the Fondation Maeght was inaugurated in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, for whose garden “Le Labyrinthe” Miró designed sculptures and ceramics.
Joan Miró's works have been presented in numerous exhibitions around the world. The first retrospective took place at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1941. The artist received numerous honors and awards. In 1968, the city of Barcelona commissioned the construction of the Miró Museum, for which the artist donated forty works.
Joan Miró died at the age of 90 on Christmas Day 1983 in Palma de Mallorca.
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Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, among others.